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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its least worthy members (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The self despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
We cannot be sure that we have something worth living for unless we are ready to die for it (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The self styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The pre human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail keeper (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by products of a human process are more fateful than the product (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches (Eric Hoffer Quotes)
Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self forgetting (Eric Hoffer Quotes)